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Inner Traditions / Bear & Company is a leading publisher of books on indigenous cultures, perennial philosophy, visionary art, ancient mysteries, spiritual traditions of the East and West, sexuality, holistic health and healing, self-development, as well as recordings of ethnic music and accompaniments for meditation.

Its stock in trade is thought-provoking books on new science, new thought and visionary art. 

This boxed set includes four books:

The New Science and Spirituality Reader Edited by Ervin Laszlo and Kingsley L. Dennis

Description: With contributions from 28 leading scientists and spiritual thinkers, including Michael Beckwith, Deepak Chopra, Larry Dossey, Amit Goswami, Stanislav Grof, Jean Houston, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Jose Arguelles, and Peter Russell, it offers strategies to promote the fusion of science and spirituality.

Bio: Kingsley L. Dennis, Ph.D., is a sociologist, writer, and a cofounder of WorldShift International. The author of numerous articles on complexity theory, technologies, new media communications, and consciousness, he spends his time between Andalusia, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

Bio: Ervin Laszlo, twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, is editor of the international periodical World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution and Chancellor-Designate of the newly formed GlobalShift University. He is the founder and president of the international think tanks the Club of Budapest and the General Evolution Research Group and the author of 83 books translated into 21 languages. He lives in Italy.

Darwin's Unfinished Business by Simon G. Powell

Description: Shows that evolution is not just about the survival of the fittest but rather the survival of clever and sensible behavior.

Bio: Simon G. Powell is a writer, musician, and filmmaker. He is the author of The Psilocybin Solution and the director/presenter of the film documentary Metanoia: A New Vision of Nature. He lives in London.

The Basic Code of the Universe by Massimo Citro, M.D.

Description: Explains the universal information code connecting every person, plant, animal, and mineral and its applications in science, health care, and cosmic unity

Bio: Massimo Citro, M.D., is a medical doctor specializing in psychotherapy and the discoverer of pharmacological frequency transfer (TFF). He is a member of the Club of Budapest, is the founder and director of the Alberto Sorti Research Institute (IDRAS), and also has a degree in literature. He lives in Torino, Italy.

The Presence of the Past by Rupert Sheldrake

Description: Explains how self-organizing systems, from crystals to human societies, share collective memories that influence their form and behavior

Bio: Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist, a former research fellow of the Royal Society at Cambridge, a current fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences near San Francisco, and an academic director and visiting professor at the Graduate Institute in Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Cambridge University and was a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, where he carried out research on the development of plants and the ageing of cells. He is the author of more than eighty scientific papers and ten books.

Find out more: innertraditions.com

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